Job 16:6

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Job 16:6

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Berean Standard Bible

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

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KJV

King James Version

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

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WEB

World English Bible

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

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ASV

American Standard Version

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Job 16

⁴ I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

⁵ But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

⁶ Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

⁷ Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

⁸ You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

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